On Jan 29, 2007, at 14:00, Joe Auty wrote:
I've heard of many people having problems with RsyncX and the
version of rsync included in OS X crapping out and being unreliable.
RsyncX and the patched rsync (the former being a GUI for the CLI
rsync) that ships with OS X attempts to preserve resource forks and
other file metadata (a lot of it from the OS 9 era where this stuff
mattered). If you don't care at all about these attributes (I
don't), I would recommend building a copy of the stock rsync from
Macports, similar to FreeBSD ports in design: http://www.macports.org
Here is a partial (or possibly complete) list of file metadata that
I believe would be lost by using the stock rsync in OS X:
- get info/Finder comments (this has been replaced with Spotlight
comments in 10.4 which are saved to the Spotlight DB, not as file
metadata)
- application associations for files without file extensions
- application associations for many OS 9 files, since OS 9 did not
force file extensions and many users didn't bother with them
- custom icons pasted on
I have heard that also. However, I have been using it for backups
for about 3 years now and every time the backup disk boots and
everything I check works normally.
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